The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-09-21

milk, and it gave them full feed for four
days, equal to ZIG days for one COW.
If il. "a very fat condition the chances
are that the hen will show an inclination
to set. Even the so-callcd non settlers
on becoming fat will attempt to hatch q
brood.
When the leaves of plants assume a
yellow tinge the application of fifty
pounds nitrate of soda (saltpetre) will
often cause them to again become green
and thrifty.
In Flanders the farmers maxim is:
"Without manure there is no grain
without cattle there is no manure, and
without green crops and roots cattle can
not be kept"
Animals are subject to sunstrolSc as
we'll as human beings if compelled to
endure excessive heat. The pasture
should always contain few shade trees,
and also running water.
A poulterer says: Wcwould never at
tempt to keep a flock of chickens
through the winter without plenty of
dry earth for dust bath. The best
time to store it is when it is dry.
The free use of insect powder in the
stables will greatly lessen the annoyance
to stock from flies, but the stalls and
floors should be kept clean. Dusting the
lcrs of horses with carbolate of lime will
aid in preventing attacks from insects.
A farmer writes that he considers a
cow three-quarters jersey and one-quar-
ter corn meal about as good for butter
as any he can find. He has small herd
of such COWS whose butter sells at a
handsome advance over the average
price.
The dairy COW may be regarded as a
machine for transforming the food which
she receives into milk, butter and cheese.
She has no power, however, to produce
something out of nothing. The best she
can do is to perform her work econom-
ically.
A correspondent OF the London Hortl-
cultural TimGs, who has used salt upon
all kinds of crops successfully for thirty
wears. warmly recommends it. He says,
however, it should not be used on cold,
heavy, moist soils. It should be in every
garden.
Farmers will find it to their advantage
to corn mutton in a weak brine for home
consumption. The hams can be smoked
and used like dried beef, or they can be
boiled. The corued mutton will be
found an agreeable change from sausage
and spare ribs.
Tomato vines will endure quite an
amount of cutting and trimming, and Of
ten renew themselves when nearly dead.
If the branches be too thick it will be OF
advantage to cut some Of them out from
| a few vines where limited amount OF
early fruit shall be desired.
Store beets, carrots, parsnips and
turnips in bins in the cellar and pack
them in dry sand or earth and they will
keep we'll for winter use. This method
will enable the farmer to use them at
any time, which will not be the case if
they be stored in mounds in the open
air.
Hogs kept in confinement will eat
charcoal or even bituminous coal with
relish, and they are also fond of rotten
wood, these substances seeming to fur
nish a desired, if not necessary, condl-
ment or appetizer. Charred corn once
a week is welcome variation in the fare
of swine.
sassafras is nuisance in any field, but
it cannot be destroyed very easily except
by grubbing it out, removing all the
roots. Being a hardy and persistent
plant it must be killed in its younger
staces. If allo we'd to overrun field it
will entail nearly as much labor as IS
REQUIRED to clear new land from brush.
An observing writer remarks that
farmers may naturally be divided into
three classes /. Those who grow crops
below the average, and whose lives are
struggle with poverty. 2. Those who
grow average crops and make living by
close economy. 3. Those whose crops
are always above the average, and who
are prosperous.
Those making use of driven wells
should remember that the patent expired
two wears ago, and that the wells put
down since then are free of any royalty
also, that the right of any person claiming
to act as agent of the patentee should be
clearly established before money is paid
him. 1t Is good rule in all such cases
to 60 slow and act with neighbors.
Grease of any kind will destroy lice on
cattle, but the use of grease to great
extent will injurc the cattle. If a single
animal be infested with lice all the others
will soon be in the same condition. A
pound of carbolatc of lime, mixed with a
bushel of fine, dry dirt, freely scattered
on the backs of the animals, is harm
less remedy, and will prove successful il
used daily.
Farmers generally do not yetappreciate
the value of bran as a feeding, substance.
1t contains less oil than corn meal, but
one fourth more fesh-forming, bone.
building material 1t is, therefore, less
heating and more healthful. BY analysis
it's manurial value after being fed to
animals is rather more than double that
of meal. Bran can usually be bought in
the fall for about onc-third less than in
winter.
Cream is more valuable than butter, since
it is equal to both butter and buttermilk,
although the impression seems to prevail
with most milk producers that the ono
great and only legitimate end of milk
and its cream is to make butter, and O
sense of waste and misuse involuntarily
arise whenever either is used for any
other purpose; while, in fact, butter
making is the least useful purpose fol
which milk is employed.